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Situation of human rights in Iraq (2002), para. 24

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  • Situation of human rights in Iraq (2002)
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(f) To abrogate all decrees that prescribe cruel and inhuman punishment or treatment, including mutilation, and to ensure that torture and cruel punishment and treatment no longer occur;
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 14

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013)
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Deeply concerned that, despite the increase in national, regional and international efforts and the focus on the abandonment of female genital mutilations, the practice continues to exist in all regions of the world,
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  • Gender
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  • Health
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 31

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013)
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14. Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of policies and programmes and legislative frameworks aimed at eliminating female genital mutilations;
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Situation of human rights in Iraq (1996), para. 24

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  • Situation of human rights in Iraq (1996)
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(c) The enactment and implementation of decrees prescribing cruel and unusual punishment, namely mutilation, as a penalty for certain offences and the abuse and diversion of medical-care services for the purpose of such mutilations;
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 10

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Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilations being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which they are practised,
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  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 19

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019)
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Underscoring the importance of eliminating female genital mutilation as a contribution to the implementation of the range of Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular target 5.3,
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 42

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11. Encourages States to consider presenting, during the universal periodic review, relevant recommendations on measures to prevent and eliminate female genital mutilation;
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 38

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17. Also calls upon States to support, as part of a comprehensive approach to eliminate female genital mutilation, programmes that engage local community practitioners of female genital mutilation in community-based initiatives for the elimination of the practice, including, where relevant, the identification by communities of alternative livelihoods for them;
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 18

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019)
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Commending the continued efforts and actions undertaken by States, individually and collectively, regional organizations and United Nations agencies for the elimination of female genital mutilation, as well as the implementatio n of its resolution 71/168 ,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 06

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Recalling also the decision of the African Union, adopted in Malabo on 1 July 2011, to support the adoption by the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of a resolution banning female genital mutilation,
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 34

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015)
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15. Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of policies and programmes and legislative frameworks aimed at eliminating female genital mutilations;
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 15

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Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilation being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which it is practised,
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  • Harmful Practices
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 38

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17. Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a third phase of the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which will run until 2020, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilation;
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  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 29

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8. Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilation are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope and that they include projected timelines for goals and incorporate clear targets and indicators for the effective monitoring, impact assessment and coordination of programmes among all relevant stakeholders and promote their participation, including the participation of affected groups, practising communities and non-governmental organizations, in the development, implementation and evaluation of such plans and strategies;
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 04

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Recalling its resolutions 27/22 of 26 September 2014, on intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation, and 32/21 of 1 July 2016, on the elimination of female genital mutilation,
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 36

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17. Also calls upon States to support, as part of a comprehensive approach to eliminate female genital mutilations, programmes that engage local community practitioners of female genital mutilations in community-based initiatives for the abandonment of the practice, including, where relevant, the identification by communities of alternative livelihoods for them;
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 12

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Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilation being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which it is practised,
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  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 40

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017)
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19. Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a third phase of the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which will run until 2020, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilation;
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  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 43

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019)
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22. Calls upon States to improve the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative disaggregated data, where appropriate, and to collaborate with existing data collection systems, which are crucial for evidence -based legal and policy development, programme design and implementation and the monitoring of the elimination of female genital mutilation;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 44

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019)
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23. Also calls upon States to develop unified methods and standards for the collection of data on female genital mutilation, which is underdocumented and underreported, to develop additional indicators to effectively measure progres s in eliminating this practice and to reinforce the sharing of good practices relating to the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation at the subregional, regional and global levels;
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  • Harmful Practices
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 24

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  • Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018)
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Bearing in mind that States have primary responsibility for preventing and eliminating female genital mutilation and for achieving zero tolerance of the practice,
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 36

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15. Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of policies and programmes and legislative frameworks aimed at eliminating female genital mutilation;
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 11

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Recognizing that female genital mutilation is inherently linked to deep -rooted, negative norms, stereotypes, perceptions and customs that are obstacles to the full enjoyment of human rights,
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  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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Feb 25, 2020
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Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls (2002), para. 18

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  • Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls (2002)
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(c) The work carried out by the Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation of the United Nations Population Fund and her continuing contribution to the campaign to eliminate female genital mutilation;
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 33

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  • Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018)
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9. Calls upon States to take the following immediate and effective measures to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation:
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 21

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  • Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018)
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Welcoming the growing global consensus on the need to take appropriate measures to prevent and eradicate female genital mutilation, and considering that this practice cannot be justified on religious or cultural grounds,
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  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 28

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019)
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7. Calls upon States to address the medicalization of female genital mutilation and to encourage professional associations and trade unions of health service providers to adopt internal disciplinary rules prohibiting their members from engaging in the harmful practice of female genital mutilation;
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 45

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017)
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24. Acknowledges that intensifying efforts is urgently needed for the elimination of female genital mutilation, and in this regard also acknowledges the importance of giving the issue due consideration in the efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030;
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  • Gender
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2017), para. 28

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  • Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2017)
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(c) To impose a zero-tolerance policy on sexual and gender-based violence, including female genital mutilation, ensuring that those responsible for sexual and gender- based violence, exploitation and abuse are, regardless of their status or rank, held to account;
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  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 20

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  • Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018)
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Recalling the inter-agency global strategy launched in 2010 by the World Health Organization to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation,
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Feb 25, 2020
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